Chaining of ordering predicates (e.g. for std::sort)

Question

You can pass a function pointer, function object (or boost lambda) to std::sort to define a strict weak ordering of the elements of the container you want sorted.

Howeve

Answer 1

Variadic templates in C++ 11 give a shorter option:

    #include 
    using namespace std;

    struct vec { int x,y,z; };

    struct CmpX {
      bool operator() (const vec& lhs, const vec& rhs) const 
      { return lhs.x < rhs.x; }
    };

    struct CmpY {
      bool operator() (const vec& lhs, const vec& rhs) const 
      { return lhs.y < rhs.y; }
    };

    struct CmpZ {
      bool operator() (const vec& lhs, const vec& rhs) const 
      { return lhs.z < rhs.z; }
    };

    template 
    bool chained(const T &, const T &) {
      return false;
    }

    template 
    bool chained(const T &t1, const T &t2, const CMP &c, P...p) {
      if (c(t1,t2)) { return true;          }
      if (c(t2,t1)) { return false;         }
      else          { return chained(t1, t2, p...); }
    }

    int main(int argc, char **argv) {
      vec x = { 1,2,3 }, y = { 2,2,3 }, z = { 1,3,3 };
      cout << chained(x,x,CmpX(),CmpY(),CmpZ()) << endl;
      return 0;
    }